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Outrage Machine
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Outrage Machine by Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a relentless, sharp-edged collection that confronts the absurdity of modern life - where outrage is currency, attention is fleeting, and nothing stays sacred for long.
With razor-sharp wit and unsettling clarity, these poems move through fractured relationships, working-class realities, media spectacle, and the quiet violence of everyday existence. Flanagan's voice is both darkly comic and brutally honest, exposing a world that often feels beyond parody - and yet somehow more ridiculous by the day.
Shifting between stark minimalism and flashes of surreal intensity, Outrage Machine interrogates the noise of contemporary life: the performance, the spectacle, the endless churn of reaction and distraction. These poems inhabit a space where everything is observed, little is resolved, and the human condition remains both deeply felt and quietly unraveling.
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